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I don’t know why, but you don’t find this 7th step of the releasing technique mentioned in the various Larry Crane and Hale Dwoskin work-ups.

Practically, it’s been around as a practice since time immemorial.

Here’s what Levenson said in a tape series called, “The Way”:

7. Make your behavior that which a Master would do.

Whatever you do, do it successfully.

The more imperfectly we work, the lower down the scale we are.

The action required to go free is releasing all the obstruction.

A Master, as we’ve covered elsewhere, is someone who has already achieved a high state of enlightenment and self-knowledge. And there are more around on this planet than we consider. But that’s another essay I’ve already written.

For our use here, it is really that one sentence and the explanation I pulled from his tape – not an exact quote, but close.

People have often used others’ examples to compare and contrast their own lives with. Levenson is telling you to simply do what a Master would do.

Of course, you probably have heard that phrase, “What would Jesus do?” – which is completely applicable, just as “What would Buddha – or Lao Tse, or Confucius, or Muhammad, or any other major spiritual leader – do?”

The idea that comes to me, particularly in following Levenson’s example above, is that you always work for perfection in every single thing that you do. All actions are professional and give a much greater value than are asked for. Wallace Wattles covered that exact point in his “Science of Getting Rich.” Similarly Earl Nightingale covered similar points in his “Strangest Secret” recording.

And so very interesting was a point I first ran into from Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” – where he quotes the psychologist William James – that all you have to do is to act the part and whatever you do will take the place of any feeling you are currently experiencing. Be brave, and you are. Laugh, and then you’ll certainly be merry.

So that gives us a very practical and pragmatic approach to life. Study up on the lives and teachings of these spiritual leaders – or any Master in any field – and you’ll see exactly how to approach life from that viewpoint.

Don’t assume their persona, be your self – but make your actions those a Master would do. In other words, take all this in advisement, but throw it away if it doesn’t let you be yourself.

Because you are already a Master, we are just working out how to let your inner light shine – aren’t we?

Try this for 30 days and you’ll start replacing habits you didn’t even know you had.

I can already see where I can get some improvement out of this – I hope you have as well.

But, please – feel free to leave a comment either way.

One last point.

Your path is entirely your own. There is only one Way for you – and that is the one you pick out and resolve for yourself.

This idea of using the releasing technique, my little joke of using “KISS BUTT” to get everything you really want in life – that doesn’t work for everyone.

There are exactly as “many paths up the mountain” as their are individuals in this Universe.  There can be no “one way and only one way” – because we are all connected, but completely different.

While all spiritual paths are correct in their basic data, many religions (and governments) go astray because they inherit the same problems their followers have. They think they are separate from everyone else and so they are right and everyone else is wrong.

Needless to say, this doesn’t work. Thinking someone else is wrong just comes back to you, doesn’t it?  Accepting people for what they are, giving them unconditional love – these actions will bring you acceptance and love in return, won’t they?

That old Golden Rule scene we’ve talked about over and over.

The other phrase I’m fond of quoting goes: “No one school has all the teachers.” That’s from the older Polynesian sayings, which are probably the oldest surviving philosophic system that this planet has. And those islands are amazingly peaceful these days.

While I tell people that releasing is probably the greatest discovery since Fire and the Wheel (right up there with sliced bread and spreadable margarine) – I also have to say that it’s not for everyone.

I tell you to throw away all that you’ve read here and prove it for yourself. That is really, really the only way to find Truth. Because truth is completely personal to you. No two people share the same exact truth.

Of course that explains why no government really works and dictators seldom end their career alive and in power.

The best approach is and always has been to let people work things out for themselves. Let communities solve situations as best they can, groups of communities decide what’s best on a broader basis, states to solve solutions based on a broad consensus (if at all) and the national government to simply keep its nose out – excepting only national concerns like defense and safeguarding trade lines.

And I’d love every single government employee at all levels to apply less kiss-butt and more KISS BUTT – they could release on having to control and approve anything for the rest of us, as well as only doing those things which would benefit others as they would like to be benefited.

But regardless of politics, just work out the optimal solution for yourself.

Whatever your path is – go at it until you achieve your own personal freedom and everlasting happiness. We all share one other, common thing – inside, we are all Masters. And we just need to let is shine out through all that we’ve stacked up on top of it. Do just that for yourself and we all win.

Thanks for listening to all I’ve said here. Now I’m done.

You can safely throw it all away and write your own blog now.

I wish you a great eternity.

You know, we are all Masters in our own right. True. Just look inside and you see the perfection that you are.

The ancient Polynesians had is completely right. Nowadays, when you say Kahuna, you either think of some surfer dude who always beats everyone else out in the competitions – or some mystic healer who can fire-walk, control nature, and maybe raise the dead.

But “Kahuna” always met something like “keeper of the secret”, although that is a very loose translation (suitable for us haole’s who don’t speak a word of it). There were kahuna’s for every trade and business and activity. Our use would be mentor – as you would seek out these experts if you wanted to learn that skill or art. (Fishing kahuna’s, weaving kahuna’s, gardening/farming kahuna’s, etc.)

And so, originally, there were kahunas all over the place. (Check out wikipedia for both these terms.)

It is even so today. Masters (kahunas/mentors) of any trade actually abound. Our approach with the Sedona Method or releasing technique, is to enable everyone to master themselves as well.

My approach, different from most, is to tell you that you don’t have to have a lot of money, or sexual partners, or servants, or impeccable health to be a complete success. You don’t have to control vast estates of property and hundreds or thousands of employees to be a success. But certainly, you need to be free of having to have approval from anyone else about what makes your success.

For the only person who can weigh in on your level of success is you. You either are doing what you want to do in life, or you aren’t. And the only one who sets the decisions about what you should and shouldn’t be doing is you.

That is the freedom which Sedona Method release technique brings – to be able to be, do, and have anything you want. You don’t have to have money or prowess in order to accomplish whatever it is you want today.

If you want to stay at home and home-school the kids while maintaining the household, then that’s perfectly fine. So is flying airplanes for a living. Anything you want to do that isn’t hurting anyone else or illegal because of that fact – you should be able to simply learn to do as an expert in that field. A Kahuna. A Master.

And any Master of their craft does it with an ease that makes it seem like they were born to do just that. And it’s probably true. For when a person is following their passion, it’s something that they meant to do since they were born (or thereabouts.) But that doesn’t mean you can only have one passion. Many people have several and either master all of them, or shift from one to another, mastering each in turn.

The key point in that is that they do it with ease. That is where Sedona Method comes in. Masters simply release on everything and anything which interrupts or interferes with their practice of their craft. And they live rather calm, peaceful lives. Even if it’s a hut on the beach they have to rebuild every few years. Or if its a stone hut in the glens of Scotland so old that there’s no record of when it was first built. Or the business executive who has been rising through the ranks for 20-30 years and stands a chance of being the COO or CEO soon. Or the administrative assistant who has seen those CEO’s come and go – but knows how to help them all be a success through her mastery of corporate policy and human behavior.

There are Masters who walk this earth and they need not be famous or wealthy or outrageously lucky.

And the reverse is true. People who win lotteries are often bankrupt and further in debt a couple years later – because they never learned how to manage wealth. People who have rented their whole lives aren’t necessarily ready for home ownership. Because a politician is able to get elected doesn’t mean he’s ready to be a statesman.

As well, most people are hampered by popular success – celebrities often no longer have any life of their own once they’ve “made it.” So being a quiet success and having everything you could want is just fine with most people.

My point here is that you are looking for personal freedom, above and beyond any fame or fortune. The society around you worships these ego-traps. That doesn’t mean you have to.

You have to want freedom more than you want the world. And once you get yourself on that route, you’ll walk it right on out. Sure, others may pass you by, or maybe you suddenly attain it in a flash after persuing it for years and years.

And after you Master yourself, then what? Practically, the release technique has been used to help people become millionaires and resolve relationships, and create huge successes. But the people who only used it for those material things wound up in trouble again, sooner or later. Because money, fame, fortune – all these are part of the World. They are not part of Freedom.

Doesn’t mean you’l be broke and lonely – those are also part of this world. When you look for the Freedom, Peace, and Joy which have always lay within you – just waiting to be let out – then the world gives you anything you want. Because you don’t need it anymore.

So: become the Master you already are. Let your light shine.

Nothing is really important.

Sure, there are things you should do to keep living on this planet. But let the Universe show you what these are.

Take “your passion in life”. Most people draw a blank when you ask them what they feel their purpose in life is – what they are here to accomplish in this lifetime. But that’s usual. Most people have the bulk of the Universe walled off so it can’t get out. Most people “work” at “jobs” to “make money” or “make a living.”

And some people get paid to play baseball or some other sport for a living. They retire when they are in their 30’s or 40’s and manage real estate or golf all day, or some such. And the bulk of us these days have several careers.

I know of an organization that set about to find out the basic purpose of all their employees. They set up a huge program and put all their staff through it. But when the results started coming out, they found out that a small percentage of people were simply quitting their jobs as it wasn’t what they really wanted to do with their lives. Of course that was a disruption. So management quickly came down with a correction that revised the program into “finding what their purpose for their job was”. This stopped the turnover. But it was trying to put a cork in the genie’s bottle. (Frankly, they already had turnover all the time because people were frustrated from their denied purposes already. So their revision solved nothing in fact.)

I was one of those people who saw this and simply moved out of their way – into the Way which the Universe was going. Like was said earlier – you have to let your light shine. It’s far easier and more comfortable than any corporate job working for someone else – unless that is exactly what you should be doing.

The Sedona Method release technique simply help you find and confirm your passion.

If you’re happy, contented, and everything is going fine around you – then you are on the right path for you. Simple. Because the world is perfect.

And this is why I don’t mention earlier Masters here, or quote the legacy or writings of others. What good would it do? Someone pulling off a miracle just builds resistance in others so they can’t follow as easily. Sure, if everyone were pulling off miracles every day, then it’s common place. Like flying in an airplane, or driving along a road while you’re sitting still inside a car. Or holding a piece of plastic to your ear and talking to someone on another continent. Miracles in the 1800’s – not today.

Learn from the world around you, but more importantly, let the Universe already within you give you the lessons you need next. Let your light shine.

Here is one importance you can and should reject until you possibly can make it your own – testing it for yourself:

Whatever you want, give it away to someone else first in order to make it show up. That’s one version of the Golden Rule. Treat others as you would want to be treated. Cheer someone else up in order to be happiest yourself. Help others be successful and your success is assured. If you don’t have something, figure out how to help someone else get it – first.

Of course that flies in the face of any idea of competition. But competition is a lie, anyway, isn’t it? “Level playing fields” are fantasies. No such thing. Winners simply out-create others. Sports are putting a bunch of talented people onto a arena where they are hampered by various rules and “now your supposed to’s” so they can excel to produce a very, very narrow range of accomplishments. The Universe isn’t like that. Everyone excels in their own specialty. And there are just as many specialties as their are people.

So this of course comes in as: “many paths up the mountain”. What is important for you isn’t as important for the next guy.

Listen to the Universe within you – your own particular flavor. That’s where your Freedom is going to shine from. And it’s your Freedom, not the next guy’s.

Until tomorrow…

It’s obvious that Masters walk this earth. And they don’t particularly care a hoot about being “discovered” or “exposed”. Because they really don’t give a hoot about anything. They do their job easily, effortlessly, and live their life in comfort. Mostly unknown, they don’t seek the spotlight necessarily – since that is a tradeoff and can get in a person’s way in living life.

The key thing is to let your own Freedom shine out from within. You don’t hide a light under a basket, you let it shine.

The usual disclaimer: My ideas on this are just that – discount them immediately and make them your own or reject them.

Today’s lesson goes down this line.

There are some old phrases from the releasing technique which I’ll repeat here. “Be not the Doer, Be the Witness.” “Let go and Let the Universe.”

You have to get your Self out of the way so you can let the Universe within you shine through. You already have all the answers to any problem or situation right within you. All you have to do is let it out. There is no effort in it. Just let go and let the Universe. Let the Universe what? Anything it damned well pleases.

That’s the point. The You gets in the way. There is a way of intuitional living you can adopt (or not – your choice). What this does is connect you with a fountain-well of constant inspirational and motivational. All answers are there, all solutions are there. It’s the Universe just wanting to peek out behind that “solid” facade called Self.

The idea here is that it’s much easier to go through life by letting the Universe guide you.

OK?

Here’s a set of steps from an old tape series called “The Way”:

1. You want the world more than you want freedom. (You have to want freedom more than you want the world.)

2. Take all your joy from within by releasing.

3. Make the decision to go Free and then do it.

If you do make the decision to go Free, you will do it. If you’re not Free, you haven’t made the decision.

Prime thing is making releasing constant.

4. Go directly to the fear of dying and then release it.

Get rid of the bottom motivator and you’re finished.

5. Get everything from here on by releasing – the most practical of the four.

If you’re efforting, your not releasing. “I am not the doer – and letting it happen.” Let go and let God. All actions are effortless if you are releasing. Action doesn’t stop someone from realization, identification with the doer does.

6. Be not the doer.

You’re not the doer. Things happen. You don’t have to do them. Let go and it happens. Letting go and letting God. Just watch it happen.

Releasing wanting to feed the ego.

7. Make your behavior that which a Master would do.

Whatever you do, do it successfully. The more imperfectly we work, the lower down the scale we are. The action required to go free is releasing all the obstruction.

Those will keep you going for now. Tomorrow is another day. See you then.

All the happiness you are ever going to get is already there. If you aren’t experiencing the highest level of joy and internal peace, then it’s only your own agreed-upon limitations which are keeping it from showing up.

Natively, we are all Masters in our own right. You already have all the abilities and powers and serenity – more than you could even conceive was possible.

But this is hidden behind all what you’ve swallowed over the years, all the teachings you’ve received in school, by examples of your peers and friends and family, from the books you’ve studied, the lectures you’ve attended (or been given), by the videos and TV and recordings you’ve listened to or watched.

All the teaching you’ve received has been worthless beyond belief. And to that exact degree you’ve believed all this stuff you’ve ingested, it is to that degree that you aren’t free and can’t experience the basic happiness you already have inside of you.

Same goes for any talent you “wish” you had, or abilities you’d “like to attain”. The only reason these aren’t showing up in your life, the only reason you aren’t brilliant, talented, famous, prosperous, satisfied with the life around you – all these have a single reason.

You just think you don’t _______ (fill in the blank.)

The trick is to knock off this thinking, rationalizing, figuring out. It doesn’t get you anywhere. For all Einstein’s work – are we any closer to traveling at light speed across the galaxy? We do have his atomic bomb (which he regretted for the rest of his lifetime.)

All this thinking, what has it accomplished? Government, taxes, strife, warfare, hunger, want, scarcity. And on top of that: more government, more taxes, etc.

If you “think” down that line, you only get more of the same. Look down your past-track, your own personal history, and you see it’s completely true.

You really and actually have to stop thinking in order to get any “forward” progress.

The progress we are actually making is getting ourselves out of the hole we’ve dug ourselves into. It’s not that we need to stop digging when we found ourselves in that hole, we need to start digging ourselves out.

And you begin the long process of stopping your thinking by learning how to quiet the mind.

This is called releasing – and it was uncovered and worked out by Lester Levenson, and it’s called the Sedona Method.

How this is done, how to quit thinking – that’s really, really simple: When you get a thought, you don’t try to stop it. You welcome it. You don’t try to figure out how you are having it, you just accept it for what it is. It won’t hurt you if you simply look at it for what it is. Thoughts can’t hurt you. They are just an old bad habit.

So the first thing is to simply recognize that you have a thought, and then to simply accept that thought. Welcome it. See it for what it is.

Then let it go.

Maybe you can’t let it go right off the bat. Hale Dwoskin and others have developed additional techniques to enable you to find and release these various thoughts.

The basics are: Welcome/accept any thought that comes in, and then release it. See it, let it go. Don’t resist it, don’t work at figuring it out, just welcome it and let it go.

Then your mind starts to quiet. You don’t have to keep thinking any more. Happiness and joy fill the gaps in between the thoughts. You start to live at peace within yourself and within your world you live in.

And you’ll start getting some really brilliant intuitive ideas. Your native genius will shine through. Solutions to all your problems will show up. Simply. Or the problems will simply disappear.

But you have to quit that bad habit of thinking first. And to do that you have to learn the habit of releasing – and make it constant in your life until you don’t need to.

Try it – see if this works for you.

Still listening to older Levenson tapes about the Sedona Method. An series called “On Sleep and Awakening.”

The recurring point that Levenson makes is that you are untapped potential, all the abilities, power, ease, happiness, joy, talent – all these are already present. You can have these anytime you want.

The only trick is letting go of your own limitations which are keeping these from showing up. He covers that these are all held in the mind, and that to rid yourself of your mind allows all these to show up.

Now, this runs a foul of most of the self-help guru’s out there. But let me tell you of a simple scam which is running: if you don’t want freedom more than you want the world, then you’ll continue to change your mind but wind up back where you started. If you are constantly buying into these various techniques which allow you to “become” successful, or “become” happy – you are just going to have to continue spending your money on these guys.

These don’t work or work to the exact degree they enable you to control and vanquish your own mind.

There is a lot written about meditation, and the extreme practice of spending hours trying to quiet the mind through sheer discipline under the mantra of “don’t think”. Of course, this is much like “try not to think of a pink elephant” and a pink elephant automatically occurs.

Levenson’s Sedona Method allows you to simply release yourself from the effects of the mind and so the mind quiets.

Sure, the mind had its use – and we’ve managed to evolve this far through using it. And it was time for someone to make the breakthrough so we could get off that crutch. Essentially, the mind has become a bad habit and can simply be reformed by replacing that habit with a new one. That new one should be toward developing your own intuitive sense as you continue to quiet the mind.

And intuition is always there, under the surface. You just have to get quiet enough to hear it’s voice.

This is part of letting your own Master to the surface. You are already a Master, and you only have to rise to this state. While many are looking for a one-shot wonder to appear in their lives, you don’t have to wait.

As you continue to release, you will find more and more native abilities showing up. Your life becomes more joyous and happy and successful – because that is the native state you’ve always had within you.

There is a lot more to cover on this, but these simple points will do for now. Release your own Master by releasing continually during the day. And your life gets simpler meanwhile. Happiness and Success are native. Learn to let them come to the surface.